CBFE Seminars, & Workshops

First-year Students

CBFE First Year Bootcamp is held the first week of the faculty contract year in mid-August. All icoming CBFE students are required to attend.

Seminars and Workshops

Courses are only one element of the Ph.D. experience. Seminars and special lectures given by visitors, talks by job candidates, and conferences are equally important. Students are expected to find a seminar series or two in which to participate on a regular basis. Workshops provide an opportunity to become exposed to cutting-edge research and a chance to meet with scholars from other universities. You will be required to report to the Grad committee on which seminars you regularly attend each year.

Examples of Campus Seminars:

• Behavioral Research Insights Through Experiments (BRITE) Seminar
• CDE DemSem
• CFS Household Finance Seminar
• Development Economics Seminar
• IRP Seminar Series
• Marketing Seminar
• Nelson Institute Seminar
• RMI Seminar

There are summer workshops, trainings and other programs offered on Campus or at other universities that can greatly enhance student’s ability to conduct research. Students can often receive support to attend these events. Often these workshops and trainings allow students to learn new research methods and to meet with students from other universities.

Examples of External Technical Workshops:

• ESTIMATE Summer Program at Michigan State University
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
• Causal Inference Workshop at Northwestern University
• Statistical Horizons Training